What this means to you
There won't be any more "point" releases (1.7.3, etc). Instead, we're going to continue to make an effort to keep the stable branch stable, and better relay information about what has changed in each build.

Major releases with potential API breakage will still occur and will still have release notes, along with continued updates even after the branch is considered to be stable.

The old Downloads and Snapshots pages on the SourceMod website have been merged and now contain more useful information than before. There are immediate links at the top to download the latest build for your OS, as well as other recent builds displayed below with information about the changes in that build over the previous one.

Additionally, all builds (formerly referred to as snapshots) include full localization data as well as updated Geo-IP data, just like previous release versions.

We're still sorting out some small things, but most everything is in place now. If you come across any issues with these changes, please post a comment in this thread.

There's a compatibility shim in place to make code that uses FindMap compiled under 1.7 work in 1.8, but you can't compile code that uses the older syntax with the current unstable/development compiler.

Edit: This wasn't relevant before as FindMap appeared in 1.7.3, but since it's now part of the "release" Stable version, now it is relevant.

I like this update, much easier that browsing through that waterfall page. I did like the waterfall page though because it showed when a build was being processed and time remaining. Will there be anything like that for compile times on this new page?